{"id":527,"date":"2004-06-25T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/IGuessGregoryMendelWasntCrazy.aspx"},"modified":"2004-06-25T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:55:43","slug":"i-guess-gregory-mendel-wasnt-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/i-guess-gregory-mendel-wasnt-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess Gregory Mendel wasn&#8217;t crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Hoo boy, I bet this crew is fun a the local neighborhood fourth of July barbecue!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Lance Champion of McMinnville, Tennessee decided to pull over&nbsp;a local deputy for violating the speed limit (Note: Lance isn&#8217;t a peace officer, he just plays one in his own mind).&nbsp; The resultant conversation landed 23 year-old Champion in custody for disorderly conduct (um, duh!).&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Champion then did what any good local superhero would do, he called his mom.&nbsp; Mom Champion next showed up at the scene with Champion&#8217;s 17 year-old brother. Jr. Champion helped the situation by slapping the hand of a police officer who was supervising the towing of Lance Champion&#8217;s car.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Okay kids, what happens when you hit a police officer?&nbsp; That&#8217;s right, you get arrested.&nbsp; Having her two sons arrested was obviously tough on Mom Champion who promptly got herself cuffed for disorderly conduct as well.&nbsp; Wanna go for a royal flush?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Champion patriarch, Hal Champion, was able to return from church just in time to help diffuse the situation by showing up and (like a good Christian) through peace, love and understanding&nbsp;promptly get himself taken down with a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.taser.com\/\">taser gun<\/A> and arrested.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Some people shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to breed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT size=1>Yeah, sounded crazy to me too, but it&#8217;s real and happened on Tuesday, <\/FONT><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040626142443\/http:\/\/www.cnn.com:80\/2004\/US\/South\/06\/21\/family.in.jail.ap\/\"><FONT size=1>go get the official write up at CNN.<\/FONT><\/a><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo boy, I bet this crew is fun a the local neighborhood fourth of July barbecue! Lance Champion of McMinnville, Tennessee decided to pull over&nbsp;a local deputy for violating the speed limit (Note: Lance isn&#8217;t a peace officer, he just plays one in his own mind).&nbsp; The resultant conversation landed 23 year-old Champion in custody\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webweird"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}